Rant & Rave Blog

The Peregrine Glide came onto the skydiving scene in 2013, and has steadily gained a die-hard following, which is hard to do with finicky skydivers who gravitate to well-established gear manufacturers.

But while the Glide may be "new" compared to other containers on the market, the brains behind the gear are far from rookies.

It's time to boogie, boogie, boogie, boogie, boogie! And the ChutingStar Crew will be out there with you at drop zones all over the US providing all the support and goods you could ask for.

The one and only Laura Bales is packing up the van with demos from Larsen & Brusgaard, Cookie, Tonfly, Alti-2 and Square1, and is available for container, canopy and jumpsuit orders as she'll be able to measure you up and walk you through the ordering process for any of your custom gear needs. Continue reading →

10 years ago, open face helmets were the norm for skydiving and only RW teams used fullface skydiving helmets. But with the increase of wind tunnels over our planet as well as so many different disciplines of closer proximity skydiving, many jumpers and tunnel flyers go straight to a fullface helmet as their first and only helmet.

With several different versions and brands to choose from, which one should you go with? We'll lay out the features, differences, prices as well as highlight some customer reviews, so you can make the most educated choice possible. Continue reading →

It's March Madness at ChutingStar all month long as we've sweetened the SuperStars Rewards Program with TRIPLE the points for all online orders March 1-31!

And if you're not familiar with ChutingStar SuperStars, and don't already know it's as awesome as knives, chicks and fire trucks, then read all about our customer rewards program right here.Continue reading →

February 2017 is the Month of Love at ChutingStar as we've packed our site with coupon codes and offers you can't refuse as we beat back those new price increases from the manufacturers!

We lead off February with a $100 online coupon code. Promo code SAVING100 gives you $100 off any order of $1000 or more! This coupon code is only good through Feb. 28, 2017, so get shopping! Continue reading →

ChutingStar's SuperStars Rewards Points Program just jumped to the next level of awesomeness with the introduction of the Affiliate Program!

So what is this Affiliate Program we speak of? The quick and dirty is that you can earn 1000 Points ($10) for the first order of a new ChutingStar.com customer and 100% matching points for that order and every order after! What?!? Yep, that's the scoop!

It's HERE! Black Friday 2016 Baby! The holiday season is upon us...and for shoppers like you, it all starts the day after Thanksgiving with Black Friday.

The ChutingStar Crew has loaded up our site with tons of discounted items and sales sections. In order to get you where you need to be before the sale gear and goods are gone, here's the Top 10 List below of what to find where, along with additional coupon codes to save you even more cash this holiday season.

Because skydiving is such a small niche in the realm of things to do with our time on Earth, the community of manufacturers were slow to actually have any type of holiday sales. The frame of thought was that specialized gear for skydiving was the same price on Black Friday as it was any other time of the year...no exceptions. Take it or leave it.

Well sometime around 2010 or so, that changed, in part thanks to ChutingStar's cutting-edge online web store and our decision to go ahead and discount some items for our customers, even though we weren't getting it any cheaper from the manufacturer. Since that time, every year, a few more manufacturers get in the holiday spirit, and have started actually really discounting items, to further allow us to have a true holiday sales season for shoppers with patience to wait until now to dole out that cash.

And 2016, has turned out to be the best ever for discounts on the big items...containers, canopies and full gear packages! Here's the rundown, so you don't miss any of them: Continue reading →